This catalogue has been developed to provide an overview of the observation facilities which collect SIOS data. An observation facility can be one instrument or a collection of instruments, e.g. a weather station, and is a term used by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The annotation is standardised following the WMO standards as far as possible, in order to make entries unambiguous and interoperable internationally.
To enter data in the Observation Facility Catalogue, you must be logged in and have assigned the role "RI responsible" by the administrator. Please contact the Observing Network Infrastructure Officer to have this role assigned to your account.
How to enter data into the Observation Facility Catalogue (pdf)
The purpose of the catalogue is to make better use of the existing research infrastructure by facilitating the search for given parameters and their location. In this way, duplication can be avoided and new measurements can be co-located with existing ones. The catalogue may also be used to gain a simple overview of collected parameters and how to access the data. The search interface allows users to search for GCMD keywords or to filter by status, type or observatory. The map interface may be used to search in a particular area.
The catalogue was developed by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, with input from a task force consisting of representatives from the Norwegian Polar Institute and the Alfred Wegener Institute. NySMAC members and RICC gave valuable input on the test version.
In addition to the SIOS records, this catalogue has the option to display research infrastructures from the Greenland Integrated Observing System (GIOS). The default view displays only SIOS research infrastructures. To see GIOS research infrastructures, use the menu to the right to filter. Records are fetched from the Isaaffik website.
The REST endpoint (see the right panel below the filters), can be used to query the catalogue in a machine-readable way. See an example on how to query the json endpoint in this notebook:
Observation Facility | Variables | Contact | Additional Information |
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Automatic Weather Station Kongsvegen 6 | |
Jack Kohler and Stephen Hudson
jack.kohler@npolar.no Norwegian Polar Institute |
Type: land platform (on ice)
Status: Operational SIOS project: SIOS-InfraNor RIS ids: 2203, 3231 Site info: Glacier surface Automatic Weather Station. Normal automatic weather station. In addition a 10m tower, measuring at 2, 4 and 10 m over the ice the following parameters: Air temperature, Relative humidity, Wind speed, Wind direction. Core data: Yes |
Automatic Weather Station Pynten | |
Jack Kohler
jack.kohler@npolar.no Norwegian Polar Institute |
Type: land platform (on ice)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 3231 Core data: No |
Automatic weather station Leirhaugen | |
Masaki Uchida
uchida@nipr.ac.jp National Institute for Polar Research |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Site info: AWS for terrestrial biology research Core data: No |
BSRN meteorological tower | |
Marion Maturilli
Marion.Maturilli@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 6817 Site info: Part of BSRN network. Parameters at 2m: temperature, relative humidity and wind; parameters at 10m: temperature and wind Core data: No |
BSRN radiation station | |
Marion Maturilli
Marion.Maturilli@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 2350 Site info: Part of BSRN network. Core data: No |
Barentsburg​ (BRBA) | |
Jon Magnus Christensen
Jon@norsar.no NORSAR |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Site info: Two seismic stations (BRBA and BRBB) situated in the Russian settlement of Barentsburg. Cooperation of NORSAR and Kola Branch of Geophysical Survey of Russian Academy of Sciences Core data: No |
Barentsburg​ (BRBB)​ | |
Jon Magnus Christensen
Jon@norsar.no NORSAR |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Site info: Two seismic stations (BRBA and BRBB) situated in the Russian settlement of Barentsburg. Cooperation of NORSAR and Kola Branch of Geophysical Survey of Russian Academy of Sciences Core data: No |
Bayelva site: Meteorology and Radiation | |
Julia Boike, Niko Bornemann
julia.boike@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 2950 Site info: part of GTN-P Core data: No |
Bayelva site: soil property profiles | |
Julia Boike, Niko Bornemann
Julia.Boike@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 2950 Site info: part of GTN-P Core data: No |
Bayelva station | |
Harald Songe
haso@nve.no Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate |
Type: lake/river platform (fixed)
Status: Operational SIOS project: SIOS-InfraNor RIS ids: 1668, 11353 Site info: Bayelva is situated on Brøggerhalvøya, due west of Ny-Ålesund. The catchment area is 30.9 km² of which 54 % is covered by the glaciers Austre Brøggerbreen and Vestre Brøggerbreen. In 1988 NVE initiated the discharge measurements and the river profile of Bayelva was stabilised by a large compound crump weir, designed and built by NVE. The cost was about 1 million Norwegian 1988-kroner. As the river profile is constantly changing there followed several problems, mainly due to the large amounts of sediment and ice build-up, but most were solved the following year. The main problems with the runoff measurements are connected to ice and snow blocking the weir at the beginning of the snowmelt season (Fig. 14), leading to errors in calculation of river discharge. This is corrected for as far as possible, but the resulting accuracy is not known precisely. Core data: Yes |
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